Renewal is more than change – the future is open and can be newly shaped.

Thinking ahead needs support – inside and outside the company.

The power of renewal means fostering thinking outside the box and breaking down mental barriers.

For reinvention to succeed, it needs involvement at every level.

Corporate Rethinking creates acceptance, understanding and support for the corporate renewal process.

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DEEKELING ARNDT ADVISORS

Deekeling Arndt Advisors, (DAA), is your partner of choice for urgent or complex communications issues. As strategic communications consultants, we pride ourselves on providing effective content and dialogue-enabling strategies and campaigns to communicate major company plans, objectives and projects in the most compelling way possible. We have been advising organisations on strategic communications issues for many years – from working with boards to define corporate transformation plans and narratives, right through to developing messaging and dialogue tools to align executive communities. We are specialists in developing and implementing programmes across a broad range of industries and markets.

We also have deep experience and understanding of the challenges of crisis communications, organisational change, and reputational risk. We can step in at short notice to work closely with CEOs, Chairmen, Communications & Marketing Directors, or other senior executives. Our strong team of experienced professionals partner with them to define corporate objectives and business goals, shape plans and deliver focused quick-win tactics, as well as medium to long-term initiatives.

Our insight allows us to offer valuable advice to clients; we work closely with them to identify the link between business actions and communications, as well as the impact on reputation. This enables us to offer strategic consultancy and advice that guides clients on how best to plan their internal and external communications processes.

Our range of innovative tools has proved to be highly effective in supporting and evaluating all the main elements of an organisation’s change programme. These tried and tested models can be tailored to fit all change situations to ensure the right outcomes for your organisation, tied to your business plan and specific communications goals.

All this, coupled with our global network and multi-disciplinary approach means we are well connected and we use these partnerships, together with our extensive experience, to solve your problems.

CORPORATE RETHINKING

Communications for corporate renewal

Whether it’s energy, finance, industry, healthcare or communications, our leading sectors’ core markets are all in a state of radical upheaval. While the public is hailing the advent of a new era and the politicians are at pains to take regulatory action, the top management of tradition-steeped major enterprises are under tremendous pressure to rethink. The capital markets, stakeholders and workforce clamour for “direction” and “perspectives” even before any future strategy is in place! If there are no answers forthcoming, the CEO’s skills and aptitude are brought into question and the process of renewal is already teetering on the edge before it gets off the ground.

The approach to solving this dilemma must start with the early involvement of all relevant stakeholder groups. What management needs from them is acceptance, understanding and support in order to tread new paths under market conditions that are anything but certain

Corporate Rethinking opens the way for integrating internal and external stakeholder groups by involving them in a future-oriented thinking process aimed at corporate renewal. Read more.